Sentences with phrase «embryos at fertility clinics»

What about stem cells derived from embryos at fertility clinics?

Still it is a significant improvement over former President George W. Bush's rules that allowed federal support for work with only 21 stem cell lines already created from surplus embryos at fertility clinics.

Not exact matches

You can, however, position yourself for the best possible outcome by finding a highly effective IVF team (look at www.sart.org for best pregnancy rates in your area) that will work with you to diagnose the problem (look for good two - way communication between the patient and clinic), grow and find the best embryos to transfer (look for a good lab that uses modern tools) and helps you optimize your fertility before you even get started (good physician practice).

«Without doing genetic testing, 50 to 70 percent of the time, when you put an embryo back into the uterus, they're not going to get pregnant or they're going to result in a miscarriage,» says Joe Conaghan, Ph.D. and IVF lab director at Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco, a clinic using PGS.

Contact with the people who donated the embryo, or ability to contact them at some point in the future, is usually not possible when using a fertility clinic.

The decision was seen as an effort to mollify the religious fundamentalists at the core of Bush's political support who are ideologically opposed to deriving the cells from frozen embryos in fertility clinics and scientists and patients who hope that the cells could be used to help patients with Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, spinal - cord injuries, and diabetes.

Kerry and his colleagues emphasized that embryos in excess of fertility needs at in vitro clinics are routinely destroyed.

Simon Fishel at the CARE Fertility clinic in Nottingham, UK, and colleagues have devised a way to analyse the development of embryos to pinpoint those most likely to have chromosomal abnormalities — the main contributor to IVF failure.

Around 10 per cent of women who seek fertility treatment at his clinic have a uterus that embryos find difficult to attach to — whether due to cysts, scarring from miscarriages or having a thin uterine lining.

The embryos had been incubating all day in a small laboratory at Colorado Reproductive Endocrinology, a private fertility clinic where Van Blerkom, a professor at the University of Colorado, collaborates with in vitro fertilization doctors to help increase the chances that infertile couples can have children.

As for decoding the complete DNA library of embryos, Dr. Louanne Hudgins, who studies prenatal genetic screening and diagnosis at Stanford, says some pregnant patients there say they've already had fertility clinics do that.

Embryo transfer is done at your doctor's office or at a fertility clinic, and it's usually not painful.

Contact with the people who donated the embryo, or ability to contact them at some point in the future, is usually not possible when using a fertility clinic.